Susan Harrow, Ashley Watkins Chair in French Language and Literature at the University of Bristol (French Studies)

Ray Howell, Professor of Welsh Antiquity and Director of the South Wales Centre for Historical and Interdisciplinary Research at the University of South Wales (Archaeology)

Geraint Jenkins, retired Professor of Welsh History, Aberystwyth University; former Director of CAWCS and Honorary Fellow of Swansea University and Swansea Metropolitan University, University of Wales Trinity Saint David

Dafydd Johnston, Director of the Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies at the National Library of Wales (Celtic Studies)

Montserrat Lunati, Honorary Reader University of St. Andrews (Hispanic Studies)